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Contributors

Vincent Droguet is Conservateur général du patrimoine at the Château of Fontaine -
bleau, where he has worked since 1995, first as Conservateur, then Conservateur
en chef. He specializes in Renaissance paintings and décors at the Château, and
has published widely on the collections. He also teaches at the Ecole du Louvre.

John Finlay is a Research Associate at the Centre d’études sur la Chine moderne et
contemporaine (CECMC). He was formerly a museum curator and is an in de -
pend ent scholar based in Paris. He completed a dissertation entitled, “‘40 Views
of the Yuanmingyuan’: Image and Ideology in a Qianlong Imperial Album of Poetry
and Paintings,” for Yale University in December 2011. His research is now focused
on the encounters between France and China in the eighteenth century.
James Hevia is Professor of International History and the New Collegiate Division,
and Director of the International Studies Program at the University of Chicago.
His research has focused on empire and imperialism in eastern and central Asia,
primarily dealing with the British empire in India and Southeast Asia and the Qing
empire in China. Publications include: Cherishing Men from Afar: Qing Guest
Ritual and the Macartney Embassy of 1793 (1995), English Lessons: The Pedagogy
of Imperialism in Nineteenth Century China (2003) and The Imperial Security
State: British Colonial Knowledge and Empire-building in Asia (2012).
Kate Hill is currently completing a PhD on Chinese Imperial Artefacts in Victorian
Britain at the University of Glasgow. She attained a master’s degree in the Arts of
China at Christie’s Education, London (2009), then completed certificates in Indian
and Islamic art through the Postgraduate Asian Art Course of SOAS, University
of London. In 2012 she published two articles on the plunder and collecting of
Chinese art by British soldiers: “Collecting on campaign: British soldiers in
China during the Opium Wars” in Journal of the History of Collections, and
“Chinese Ceramics in UK Military Museums” in The Oriental Ceramic Society
Newsletter.
Kevin McLoughlin is currently Interim Curator of Asian Art at the University of
Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art. He was previously was Principal Curator for
East and Central Asia at the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh; and before
that Deputy Curator of University Museums at the University of Durham. He
obtained his PhD from the University of Sussex in 2005. His research is currently
focused primarily on Cultural Revolution era propaganda arts of the People’s
Republic of China.